Yep, that's pretty much the story of the raid.
The most annoying for me is the groups that procrastinate so much. Just screw around endlessly before actually PLAYING THE DAMN GAME. Just dawdle around forever getting enough players together, then when they're finally ready "hold on, i gotta get a pizza out of the oven" "Ok, sounds like a good time for a smoke break everybody!" FACEPALM. I've spent literally probably 30 minutes to an hour in some recent groups before one second of meaningful gameplay occurs.
Part of the problem is the way I do the raid, I do milestones mostly on Tuesday, takes up most of the days playtime. But that's also when most people want to raid I guess. Then, I do a fresh run, probably starting wednesday. These usually stall out after one or two checkpoints. So then I've got to try to pick up at that checkpoint the rest of the week which means the group is stuck and people probably quit to begin with, making the odds of success get even lower. Another thing is I raid late, which means groups can tend to break up because well, it's late. Granted, I'm in control of some of these issues (could raid earlier and on Tuesdays)
Or the squeakers...ever annoying. Worse when you can tell they're the weak link that will inevitably doom the group.
Then the groups that just arent good enough, and you can tell. Where multiple players dont do their jobs.
Man, seems I'm past due to get in a good group accidentally and quash this raid! But the problem is now heroic will make it even more hard. I'm on Callus, so I'm hoping I can finish him Monday, if not it's problem because the instant heroic comes out nobody wants to do normal at all anymore.
At least I feel like I understand and am experienced in all encounters though, and am ready for heroic in that sense. Really that's more important than actually finishing, finishing is like a roll the dice into a good group formality at that point.
